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>What kind of 'useful'? Someone says it's useful to them. If you get a consensus where >50% find it useful, then it's probably useful.
by hnthrow0287345 3mo ago
>What kind of 'useful'?
Someone says it's useful to them. If you get a consensus where >50% find it useful, then it's probably useful.
- nilirl 3mo agoOk, that's empirically useful by argument of popularity. By that same measure: correctness, maintainability, and efficiency are not that useful. I wasn't saying usefulness is not important, I'm saying this post conveniently crammed the hardest problem of writing software into a fuzzy adjective.